Animation in Macbook pro M1 is not smooth

[mamalos]

Hey folks!

 

First of all (disclaimer), I'm new to virtual pinball, so I know almost nothing about how it works apart from loading some tables and playing them, so please be gentle when explaining stuff, pretend I'm a five year old.

 

Secondly, I compiled virtual pinball X (VPX - v10.8.0 Beta (Rev. 0 (unknown), macos OpenGL 64bits)) on my macbook pro (M1) a few weeks back and I'm using it, but I'm having some stuttering in the graphics while playing, which is hapening all the time. So, the ball movement is by no way smooth, and as I'm running the exact same version on a Windows laptop on the exact same talbes and where I have with no issues, I can say that the difference is huge. However, I don't suppose the Macbook doesn't have enough processing power (CPU/GPU/memory wise), unless I'm wrong. 

 

My OS is 14.5 (23F79) and the kernel version is 23.5.0.

 

I don't know how to see fps or get more info about what's going on in the mac version, as when running the binary it only starts the file browser from where I choose the table.

The error I'm getting on all tables in the console is:
 

2024-07-01 19:41:38.714 ERROR [44606831] [external_log_error@811] MessageBox(): caption=Visual Pinball Error, text=Failed to create the synchronization device.
Synchronization switched to adaptive sync.
2024-07-01 19:41:38.715 ERROR [44606831] [RenderDevice::CreateDevice@1169] Failed to create the synchronization device for frame pacing. Synchronization switched to adaptive sync.

 

which might be related or might be not.

 

FYI I'm currently only playing with VPX tables that don't need any ROMs.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, so thanks everyone for your comments in advance!

 

PS. I've also asked this question as part of another thread, but nobody seemed to answer, so I started a new topic.

Edited July 6, 2024 by mamalos

[EarBiteR]

Ive also built vpx on Linux mint 22 and get the same error:

 

2024-07-07 07:39:44.106 ERROR [18484] [external_log_error@764] MessageBox(): caption=Visual Pinball Error, text=Failed to create the synchronization device.
Synchronization switched to adaptive sync.
2024-07-07 07:39:44.106 ERROR [18484] [RenderDevice::CreateDevice@1169] Failed to create the synchronization device for frame pacing. Synchronization switched to adaptive sync.
 

It doesnt seem to be a problem for me as they run fine and pinmame tables as well.  I think your stuttering is something else. Sorry, no help as I havent touched mac's this century 😉 

 

Press F11 to toggle engine stats which includes FPS.